Re:Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
by pcwalton on Friday August 28, 2015 @11:54AM
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> And Rust and his daddy... they are just too smart to become popular nowadays, people just don't have the will and time to sit and learn better ways of doing things when they have alternatives that "mostly work most of the time" and have an easier learning curve...
That presupposes that Rust is more complex than C++ in a way that causes developers to learn C++ instead of Rust. Certainly there are a lot of C++ developers at the moment (though that number is much less than in years and decades past!) But I don't see that many new developers learning C++ anymore. Even beginning programmers who are interested in games are turning to higher-level languages and frameworks these days. My employer hires lots of C++ developers, and it's well-known that it's getting increasingly harder to find them.
When comparing Rust to Go, sure, Go is an easier language to pick up. When comparing Rust to C++, the majority of people I've talked to think the ease of use advantage goes to Rust.
That presupposes that Rust is more complex than C++ in a way that causes developers to learn C++ instead of Rust. Certainly there are a lot of C++ developers at the moment (though that number is much less than in years and decades past!) But I don't see that many new developers learning C++ anymore. Even beginning programmers who are interested in games are turning to higher-level languages and frameworks these days. My employer hires lots of C++ developers, and it's well-known that it's getting increasingly harder to find them.
When comparing Rust to Go, sure, Go is an easier language to pick up. When comparing Rust to C++, the majority of people I've talked to think the ease of use advantage goes to Rust.